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Originally posted by: billryan
In the fall of 2001, they were doing a secondary security check just before you got on your plane.
I was taking a red eye and was playing a WOF machine near the gate. I got lost in the game and suddenly hear them calling me name to report for an immediate departure. I don't have time to change my money so I stuff about $18 in quarters in my pocket and head to security where they tell me my belt buckle is too large and can't go on the plane. Now it was the same buckle I flew out with and had cleared security a half hour before. I'm passed and start arguing with the agent. It's okay to bring all these coins on, but not a belt buckle? He says- what are you going to do, throw quarters at people? Without thinking, I say - have you ever seen the damage someone with a roll of quarters in a sock can do? Just as I say it, I realize I'm probably not getting on this plane. Some supervisor type comes over, examines my belt and tells me next time to put it in my checked luggage and let's me through.
Gees Billryan, what kind of buckle was it? I have a couple of trophy buckles that I rarely (if ever) wear anymore, would they let me on a commercial flight with one? They are the size of a compact hubcap.
